Meaning of toss-up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter.
   idiomatic
2. Either of two outcomes that are equally likely.
3. The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.
4. A toss-up question.

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Examples

“It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look⟳ good and fit well.”

““He’ll do,” said the Doctor, quietly. “It must have⟳ been a toss-up all through the night. ’Think⟳ you’re to be congratulated on this case.””

“No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. Instead, a warm welcome⟳ back for Life of Pi, widely dismissed by many as "this year's Hugo" but this column's dark-horse pick⟳ from October.”

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